The Cabinet Office has published the 2015 to 2016 summary of sector resilience plans setting out the current level of resilience to risks for the UK’s critical infrastructure, including water - owing to their sensitive nature, the individual plans are classified documents.

A new consultation on the future level of support via the Feed-in Tariffs (FITs) scheme for anaerobic digestion (AD) or micro-combined heat and power (mCHP), technologies includes a proposal to remove the Feed-in Tariff (FiT) for anaerobic digestion installations of between 500kW and 5 MW.

The National Infrastructure Commission has launched a consultation as part of its responsibility under Government terms of reference to produce a National Infrastructure Assessment (NIA) once every Parliament.

Ofwat has published far-reaching proposals which include opening up the market for sludge – flagging up forecasts which suggest the bioresources market could produce benefits of up to £780 million.

Pennon  Group, owners of waste company Viridor, South West Water and Bournemouth Water has reported underlying profit before tax broadly in line with expectations at £211.3 million (2014/15 £210.7 million) - achieved against a backdrop of reduced allowed returns in the water business for the AMP6 2015-20 regulatory period.

Ofwat has today published a major paper setting out its regulatory approach for the 2019 Price Review and beyond - including far-reaching proposals which will bring about fundamental changes for the UK water sector.